A preservation tool for electro-acoustic music.
NOTE: To the best of our knowledge, this project is no longer active. A cached version of the project website is available thanks to the Internet Archive. Please let us know if you have more current information!

A European project bringing together National Libraries and Archives, leading research institutions, and technology companies to address the challenge of preserving access to digital cultural and scientific knowledge.
NOTE: This project ended in May 2010, but is maintained by the Open Planets Foundation.

Digital formats: a work in progress
The Digital Formats Web site provides information about digital content formats. An initial offering is being compiled during 2004 and 2005, and the analyses and resources presented here will increase and be updated regularly.

If you have audiovisual media, it needs maintenance - or you will lose it. This guide shows how to:conserve old formatsdigitise for transfer to new formatscreate digital file formatsuse digital restorationuse mass storageprovide electronic and web access
Functionality:
Wiki
Level of Expertise:
Introductory, but also has information of use to experienced professionals

The CRiB is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration-based preservation interventions. The CRiB system works by assessing the quality of distinct conversion applications or services to produce recommendations of optimal migration strategies. The recommendations produced by the system take into account the specific preservation requirements of each client institution.

The National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT) doesn't currently have the needed infrastructures to support the processes of ingestion and management of digital objects produced by the public administration (PA). The initiatives of the eGovernment establish the need to support its activity in information and communication technologies to improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their public services. In this scenario it is clear that the number of digital objects produced by these institutions will grow, and that their legal value and authenticity should be assured.